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From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “Texas schools about to ban critical race theory” This response was originally sent in early July, but since then, critical race theory has been banned in Texas.
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “I cannot tell if I’m neglecting my relationships with others and have become a recluse. Or if I’m comfortable with the time I have now, and will meet people when the time comes.”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’’: “Better than I have in a while.”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “I’m more Afro-Carribean than I am American and I am proud to be finding my way.”
From 'Notes From the Altar': Write something that you regret: "Believing in my Step Dad"
From 'Notes From the Altar': Write something that you regret: "I regret telling myself at a young age that I was never enough"
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “I’m terrified. To be gaslit and emotionally manipulated by someone so close to you is the most sickening feeling in the world. What hurts the most is that I didn’t even get the worst of it and can only do but so much to shield someone I love from the pain.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “I can’t live in fear. I’m strong and getting stronger, but really need to proceed with caution.”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “I hope I find something I really love to do. I hope it keeps me engaged enough to never quit.”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “I am worried I will regret not taking every chance to create a relationship with my father out of the fear he will die when I am in college.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “My future. I don't really know what I'm going to do next.”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “I’m not sure”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “I keep getting in my own damn way.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “I’m afraid to come out to my boss”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “Sometimes in life you get taught a lot of lessons. Really mean ones. Back to back. Guess you can say I’m well learned.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “I’m honestly so happy I’m still here. There’s so much I’m going to experience—I can’t wait to feel it all.”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “i’ve been pretending to be an adult for so long and now I’m supposed to BE the adult I still feel like it’s all an act”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “Anxious as fuck”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “Grateful”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “Im worried that I wont succeed in what I want to. That I will fail, or I need to stop tripping on my own self doubt.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “My psychiatrist diagnosed me with diurnal mood swings (depression worse in the morning that gets better as the day goes on) when I was diagnosed with bipolar. At these rifts I get unnecessarily existential reflective and introspective in a way that’s not numb-depressive but mostly just overwhelming. It’s all tiring and sometimes it hits me like a brick right when I wake up”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: "Like there’s a void in my chest where the fire and passion in my heart once was"
From 'What's On Your Mind': "I miss my partner. sometimes i worry he lets his work consume him and soon there won’t be anything left. his life is art and i know it makes him happy but i’m scared to see him burned out."
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “I’m nervous about college, worried that Ill be lonelier than In high school and I wont know how to talk to people.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “not having any close friends is so tiring and suffocating”
From ‘What's On Your Mind’: "I feel stable and safe in my own head for the first time in years and the silence terrifies me"
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “Frustrated.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “I find it interesting that I’m now realizing this is my world in a time where I haven’t been out in it”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “i’m good! i had a fun day at work today and it made me happy.”
From ‘What’s On Your Mind’: “Being Black is a blessing”
From ‘Say Whatever You Need To’: “Youth is a gift”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “Torn”
From ‘How Are You Genuinely Feeling Today’: “I feel better than I have in a long time.”